Hey Dear Heart,
I’ve been around FR from near the beginning.
The RC’s from the earliest days
castigated the Proddys with intense and enormous haughtiness, demeaning labels, hostility, arrogance, !!!DEMANDINGNESS!!!!, ruthlessness, venom, . . . etc. etc. etc.
ad nauseum.
They did so in posts, in thread titles with dripping condescension, venom, bitterness, anger, hate etc. etc. etc.
And that without a Proddy appearing yet to say much of anyhing in some cases. In most cases the RC hostilities, belittling, hostility etc. was
THE SUBSTRATED that they operated from continually. Sometimes it was blazing fire red IN PRODDYS FACES and sometimes it was nasty quips around the edges. But it was virtually always there.
THEN, HORROR OF HORRORS, some of us Proddys began to stand up for ourselves with just as emotionally intense a wording etc.
THAT was !!!intolerable!!!.
How dare Proddys stand up and be counted on the FR Vatican Ishtar-Mary Goddess outpost/division with anything close to the RC’s emotional intensities. What upstarts! HOW DARE THEY!
Sheesh.
Guess what . . . we don’t believe layers and tons of the RC hogwash. Not our reality.
And if y’all are going to INSIST on the UNDIVINE RIGHT of PRISSY PAPAL HAUGHTINESS—then it’s only reasonable to expect some of that emotionality to land back in your own faces.
If you want to see where it started, look in your evidently shattered mirrors.
I’ve been quite happy for many months to avoid such threads. However, when the RC haughtiness and demeaning castigations of Proddys reaches a certain level, you can bet I’m going to stand with the Proddys and let the lurkers know that we have just as much Biblical right etc. to be just as emotionally intense as all the RC cliques combined.
I’d prefer to ignore such threads still.
If y’all want sweetness and light from the Proddys, sow that.
Is it really Protestant Catholic issues Quix? Is not our issue on FR more about grace vs works, weeds vs wheat, proud vs humble, sheep vs goats ? There are plenty of pharisaic protestants here on FR as well as catholics. Also, the spiritual unity we share here on FR transcends denominations.
I have told you before I will not respond to you.